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July 29, 2005 |
| Dear Associate, |
Last week Caveon announced that we are using our Data Forensics technology to review over 3.5 million test scores for the Texas Education Agency under a subcontract with Pearson Educational Measurement. Texas joins six other states that in the past year have hired Caveon to detect test cheating. Read the Dallas Morning News article or our press release under item #1.
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This week there are many stories that describe what organizations are doing to curb cheating. One of the most dramatic is out of Russia where they are stopping cheaters by using cell phone jammers (not just detectors). Seems the use of metal detectors wasn’t quite enough to stop the flow of tech-wielding cheaters. |
Regards,
Don Sorensen
Caveon Test Security |
1 > Firm to look for TAKS cheating
Dallas Morning News
...[Caveon Test Security] has been hired to investigate the test scores of Texas schools and determine which ones are cheating. The decision to hire Caveon was prompted by a series of stories in The Dallas Morning News last winter that found highly unusual swings in test scores at some Texas schools. Investigations at some of those schools have found that dozens of educators in Dallas and Houston were improperly helping students with the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS....
Press release on the Caveon website. |
2 > Russia uses anti-terror devices to nail cheats at college
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
...State-of-the-art mobile phone jamming equipment is usually employed by Russian special forces in “zones of counter-terrorist operations”. But it is now being employed against a new target: cheating university students. The problem of students having exam answers texted to them, or even read out by an accomplice, has become so serious that Russia’s institutes of higher education are embracing technology dreamt up the cream of the country’s military industrial complex.... |
3 > No cheating seen in school's testing
Miami Herald - FL,USA
...Florida education officials say they found no evidence of cheating on the statewide assessment test at North Miami-Dade's Skyway Elementary, which received an A grade from the state this year. High scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test seemed out of line with the previous year's performance and led the state's top testing official, Cornelia Orr, to look more closely at the school's tests.... |
4 > Security experts warn of Chinese cyberattacks for industrial secrets
Forbes - USA
...Stewart said the program appeared to have been originally developed as a way to steal student exam papers and then expanded so that it can now copy many types of documents, including computer-assisted drawings and Microsoft Word files.... |
5 > FG May Introduce Camera Check for Exam Fraud
AllAfrica.com - Africa
...The Federal Government has considered introduction of mobile security cameras in examination halls to check examination malpractices in schools. Also being considered is a dress code for higher institutions aimed at restoring morals of future leaders.... |
6 > DMC principal decides to quit
Times of India - India
... Disgusted with the incidence of 12 medical students' indulgence in use of unfair means in the exam through use of mobile phones on July 16 and due to growing indiscipline in the campus, Darbhanga Medical College (DMC) principal SP Singh has requested the secretary, state department of medical education, to immediately relieve him from the post of principalship.... |
7 > Good grades or integrity?
Prince George's Journal - Rockville,MD,USA
..."Most teachers don't know about all the cheating that goes on," said a senior at Spingarn Senior High School in Northeast. "A lot of kids barely come to school. When they do, they just cheat. They don't care. All they know is the fast life."....
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